NAME
WWW::Lipsum - get autogenerated text from lipsum.com
DESCRIPTION
"WWW::Lipsum" is a module that will retrive "lorem ipsum" placeholder
text from lipsum.com.
What is "lorem ipsum"?
"Lorem Ipsum, or Lipsum for short, is simply dummy text of the
printing and typesetting industry. Lipsum has been the industry's
standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer
took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book.
It has survived not only four centuries, but now the leap into
electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was
popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets
containing Lipsum passages, and more recently with desktop
publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of
Lipsum." -- lipsum.com
lipsum.com is a useful resource on the Web that will generate passages
of lorem ipsum text for you in sizes of your choice. This module allows
you to retrieve them in an OO fashion to utilise for whatever purpose
you wish.
SYNOPSIS
use WWW::Lipsum;
my $lipsum = WWW::Lipsum->new;
print $lipsum->generate;
my @paragraphs = $lipsum->generate(
amount => 5,
what => 'paras',
start => 'no',
html => 1
);
METHODS
There is just one method, "generate", which returns lorem ipsum text. It
has several options to correspond with those offered by lipsum.com.
print $lipsum->generate; # default usage, no options
This will give you one paragraph of lorem ipsum, beginning with the
phrase "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet", as is traditional. The size of a
"paragraph" is randomly determined by the lipsum.com text generator, but
is generally between 70 and 120 words.
my @paragraphs = $lipsum->generate(
amount => 5,
what => 'paras',
start => 'no',
html => 0
);
This will give you five paragraphs of lorem ipsum, the first of which
will be without the starting phrase. Setting 'html' to 1 will cause each
paragraph to be wrapped in HTML's

tags.
print $lipsum->generate(
amount => 100,
what => 'words'
);
This will give you a hundred words of lorem ipsum with the starting
phrase. The 'html' setting has no effect if you ask for words. When used
to fill a variable, this will give you a list with one item.
print $lipsum->generate(
amount => 1024,
what => 'bytes'
);
This will give you 1024 bytes of lorem ipsum with the starting phrase.
Again, the 'html' setting will have no effect. Again, this will give you
a one-item list.
my @lists = $lipsum->generate(
amount => 10,
what => 'lists',
html => 1
);
The lipsum.com text generator's 'lists' setting produces HTML lists of
random size. Using this setting with this module will give you small
chunks of text, generally of the order of a couple of sentences. Using
the 'html' setting will cause these chunks to be wrapped in

tags for you to use as you see fit. If 'html' is off, you will get
blocks of single lines of text.
OLD METHOD NAMES
The "generate" method used to be called "lipsum"; this is retained as an
alias to "generate" if you really want it.
MAINTAINER
Zoffix Znet
AUTHOR
Earle Martin wrote this scraper, but see THANKS for
details of who really did the work.
LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT
This program is licensed under the Creative Commons
Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License (CC BY-SA 3.0). To view a
copy of this license, visit
or send a letter to
Creative Commons, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, California 94305,
USA.
LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT
Artistic ### This is to fix a seemingly buggy behaviour of
Test::Kwalitee; the actual license is in the section above
THANKS
All kudos must go to James Wilson for creating
lipsum.com and thus providing inspiration for this module - and also for
kindly actually modifying the way his site works to make it easier for
me to parse.